Shed the Past

2011
48 x 72 in.
oil on canvas
Tulum, Mexico

 

This painting was created after a trip to Tulum, Mexico. From the shores of the beach the artist saw an Iguana shedding his skin as he gazed into a wave that was about to crest. In witnessing this magnificent transformation she imagined the possibility of shedding the past; of being reborn in the same body, and then jumping into the fossil water where it meets the sea to be cleansed and reawakened.